CNN: The U.S. dollar continued to advance Thursday as fears of a global economic recession drained the market of its appetite for risky trades involving the euro and the pound…The dollar’s gains also stem from a perception that economic recovery will first emerge in the United States as the government’s bailout efforts begin to take [...]
A two-prong attack: Stripped down to its components McCain’s message to voters is this: “Don’t forget. He’s definitely black. And he may be a terrorist.” That’s the message. The nuts and bolts is a concerted effort to keep Democrats from voting — through intimidation, by striking new voters from the rolls, which is going to [...]
Sam Harris via Ben and Alice “Governor Palin, are you ready at this moment to perform surgery on this child’s brain?” “Of course, Charlie. I have several boys of my own, and I’m an avid hunter.”
I finally watched Batman vs. The Penguin: The Debate and it is a genius allusion; the best kind of sampling.
Imagine if you borrowed money from a hundred investors to bet big on a horse race. And then, as the race was underway, and your horse was trailing by a head, your backers decided to collect on their loans, with interest, one by one. Would you still stand to win even if your horse did? [...]
I marvel at how well Barack Obama performs. For quite a few years now, the bar for American performance has been lowered in so many ways. “Heckuva job, Brownie.” “12 mpg.” “Performing non-performing loans.” Performance once meant to enact or do. It can also mean to act only formally – to “go through the motions” [...]
Michael Bérubé, Regis ’78: Beginning with Reagan, the GOP has come to understand that when it runs with amiable dunces—even putatively amiable dunces—at the top of the ticket (Reagan, Bush II), it kicks butt and (as Atrios succinctly puts it) pisses off liberals; when it runs old-school government-and-civics types who understand things like parliamentary procedure [...]